Word: clingingly
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...remove himself from the pinnacle of G.O.P. leadership and influence. In a post-election statement, he made the point that "more than 25 million people" had voted "not necessarily for me, but for a philosophy that I represent, a Republican philosophy that I believe the Republican Party must cling to and strengthen in the years ahead." Concluded Barry: "Being unemployed as of January 3 or thereabouts, I'll have a lot of time to devote to this party, to its leadership, and to the strengthening of the party, and I have every intention of so doing." Among moderate Republicans...
...world into stuff that stretched up and down, back and forth, to and fro, and never once ran out of breadth. Accordingly, a whole new galaxy of stretch fabric appeared, all developed around a spandex core, ranging from brocade to burlap, taffeta to twill. Not all of them cling to the skin, but the stretch qualities let them give when and where they have...
...gratifies, as well. to find the "editorial" much diminished. It is still the same old horse-manure though; gracious knows why the editors cling so tenaciously to their cretinish little jester and that tired bird. The introduction to the "publications guide" chides freshmen with some grace and gentility. But Ibis's witless spleen can only remind us that Lampy wil probably remain the most literate of Harvard's prep-school fraternities, but only the ingrown toenail of her literary corpus...
Boxes for Tiaras. So many bag toters cling to the pious fiction that they are taking the filet home to Fido that almost every restaurateur has a story about the child who pipes up: "But when are we getting a dog, Mommy?" Exasperated waiters have been known to take revenge on such hypocrites by stuffing their Bowser Bags with bones and other morsels that only a dog would appreciate, or else by putting in strawberry shortcake and similar goodies designed to send a canine to an early grave. Zaberers' Old Gables Inn in Atlantic City simply labels its containers...
...Egypt's ruler, who has poured vast quantities of men and money behind the republican regime that deposed the Imam in a palace coup two years ago. Since then, it has been touch and go for the 30,000 to 40,000 Egyptian soldiers who managed to cling to the towns and a few main roads. The royalist tribes, led by Imam Badr and princes of the royal family, controlled the mountains of the center and north...